How to choose a best antivirus for my pc?

[eek]

Is AVAST still the go to AV for Windows?

Moved my virtual machine to new hardware and all of a sudden its running dog slow and Avast seems to be the cause

You don't need an AV on a computer in this day and age, windows defender is more than good enough.

[ladymuck]

You don't need an AV on a computer in this day and age, windows defender is more than good enough.

+1 for this

Make sure your router is correctly set up to not allow random traffic in (I used to do IP sniffing back in the day for giggles and the number of companies who had completely open networks was shocking) and don't click that tempting picture of jiggly boobs and you should be fine.

[eek]

+1 for this

Make sure your router is correctly set up to not allow random traffic in (I used to do IP sniffing back in the day for giggles and the number of companies who had completely open networks was shocking) and don't click that tempting picture of jiggly boobs and you should be fine.

It's a VM - so it won't be interacting for many users.

Knowing what Simon is doing though he's doing a pile of things in a very different way to how I do things but hey that's his decision and I don't have time to explain why my structure is very different.

[ladymuck]

It's a VM - so it won't be interacting for many users.

Knowing what Simon is doing though he's doing a pile of things in a very different way to how I do things but hey that's his decision and I don't have time to explain why my structure is very different.

I wasn't implying you click on pictures of jiggly boobs, it was an extension of your reply to Simon to remind him that those tempting pictures can get him into trouble in more ways than one

[vwdan]

You don't need an AV on a computer in this day and age, windows defender is more than good enough.

+1 - Haven't installed a 3rd party AV solution on any PC I look after domestically in a long long time

[malvolio]

I leave most of it to MS Essentials, but I bought a Malwarebytes licence years ago so have that on the PCs as well. A bit belt and braces, but it's pretty much invisible and is very good at closing off "interesting" websites (most of which spawn off other rather more legitimate ones). Stopped using Avast when it was both taking up a lot of resources (mostly disk traffic) and still letting (admittedly minor) stuff through.

[Lance]

Defender is great. And can be used as a centrally managed solution with the correct MS licensing.
It also has Application Guard (that appears to be part of Edge but is a Defender product). It uses a Hyper-V container to run the Edge browser in so that it's sandboxed. useful for any higher risk web surfing.

Enable hardware-based isolation for Microsoft Edge (Windows) - Windows security | Microsoft Docs

I believe it's not available for Windoze 10 Home. But is for Windows 11.